NGV Magazine

NGV Magazine is a bi-monthly magazine featuring writing from NGV and around the world that considers the many ways and reasons that we create, design, speculate and investigate. Learn how artists and designers make things, sink deep into the lives, challenges and achievements of creative people throughout history, and consider the world anew through the many ideas and perspectives explored through art and design.

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Latest issue

Issue 54 Sep–Oct 2025

In this issue of NGV Magazine, we feature the late Italian designer Gaetano Pesce (1939–2024) and the rare 1971 prototype for Pesce’s Moloch lamp that has recently joined the NGV Collection through the Marjorie Joseph-Wilks Bequest. We hear from Pulitzer Prize winning author Sebastian Smee and his research into French Impressionsm as part of his book Paris in Ruins, take a close look at British artist Marlow Moss through a rare 1956–57 work by the artist, Composition yellow, blue, black, red and white, new to the Collection thanks to the John William Fawcett Bequest, and learn why Jean Paul Gaultier designs retain icon status, looking at some haute couture recently gifted to the NGV Collection by Krystyna Campbell Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.

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Features in this issue

AT NGV INTERNATIONAL Icon: Jean Paul Gaultier

‘The astonishing beadwork took 358 hours to complete and is a striking example of one of Gaultier’s beloved devices, the use of trompe l’oeil to create irony and illusion.’

By Katie Somerville